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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-12
Boy Killed.

PLYMoNTH, N. H., Oct. IL.
George Condor, lad tw elve years old. was
killed instantly this noon, by pulling down a
sixty foot flag pole, which fell upon him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-12
Arrival 6y Steamers.
Maine. Stock at Market.
Cattle Traffic by Maine Drovers.

tutttt ITdWc Og HdIHS DT0DtTS.
This State still takes the lead In the amount of
live stock shipped to Massachusetts,. stock train
of So cars steamed up to Union market receiving
yards and deposited nearly 300 cattle and between
1000 1900 head Of sheep and lambs The market of
cattle intended for beef is not very active and we
fered last week but we are apprzed that there are
more to come, that regards merit stand way up
from good judges standpoint. We give sales of 8
two year old steers by +. w. Hayden the average
800 lbs. at &c L w. /. C. Libby L Son sold two
year old steers 900 lbs. at $500 N. Trafton sold
IL steers av. $50 lbs at e24 per head a fraction
less than &c a pound live weight.
Sales at Brighton, Mostly BY Maine Dealers.
The prime difficulty is in the disposal Of slim milch
cows, there being an over abundant supply. Work
ing oxen rather quiet. I. G. LIBBY sold springers
At 81 80 per head; extra new milch COW ol5, do
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-12

Know thyself by reading the "Science OF
Life," the best medical work ever published,
for young and middle-aged men.
may7d&w1y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-12

Wa Department,
Otfice of the Chief Signal Officer.
N ashingtcn. ID. c., Oct. 12-i 4. NJ.
For Maine Slightly coider; fair: light to
fresh north~esteriy winds. brisk on the
coast.
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BY TELE6Rh
s E.AIHtfs REPORT

so''tca'iou. ior the Nen - ssour..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-12

THE Hoo FAIR.

Postponed Until " Wednesday on Account
OF Bad " Weather-PropItious Outlook in
Every Other farticular-A Complete
List of Horses Entered, etc.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-12
New York Moncv Market.

NEW YORK, Oct. II.
Money call ranging from 4 TO s.
Prime mercantile paper at 7sS per cent. Sterling
TO per cent. per diem and interest,
Exchange continues dull and steady At 4sol 94s4l.
Government bonds dull aud steady. Railroad bonds
dull.
The following are the closing quotations OF ss
curities
United States SIS,
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16
MONOPOLY SPEAKS.

The New York correspondent of
the BALTIC. SIN, writing on the Sth,
says:
The effort to induce Congress to
furnish a telegraph service is at
tracing the attention Of railroad and
telegraph magnates. DR.. Green,
president of the Western Union, is
opposed to the scheme, which he
says is impractical and unwise. "If
we should have a corrupt admins
tration in control of the wires, it
would be difficult to dislodge it."
Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew, president
of the Vanderbilt roads, does not re
gard it as practical for the govern
ment to control telegraph lines. He
believes that something like the in
terstate commerce bill, il applied to
the telegraph, would remedy most
of the evils complained of.
We had better RISK monopoly
by the government than by private
individuals like jay Gould. The
trouble now is, we cant dislodge
Gould's attorneys in Congress. If
Gould's money was not stronger
than the will of the people, Congress
would immediately construct tele.
graph. In England the Government
furnishes the entire telegraph ser
vice and it works admirably. I'm
fortunately majority in Congress
are afraid to antagonize men like
Gould and Depew:-they control
too many newspapers.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16

tions consider these laws: tcopies
may be had BY application to this
ofiice) and unless a candidate prom
ises to vote for them Just as they
stand, let him be defeated The
laws referred to arc: 81 To abol-
ish the free PASS bribery; ~ to
apply the principles of the inter
state commerce bill to railroad traf-
fc within the State, and CD to
equalize taxation by compelling tax
dodgers to list their property.
No candidate dares object to a
single provision in any of these
laws, and vet they have been twice
defeated. They have been defeated
because the railroad managers and
tax-dodgers undertake to hound
down every man who advocates
them.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16
NEW ENVELOPE MACHINERY
WANTED,

The manufacturers OF envelopes
have lately united to form a trust,
and have advanced the prices pf en-
velopes. II is expected that il any
new concern were TO commence bus
mess independently of the trust, the
latter would be able temporarily to
undersell and destroy the new-com-
er. In this land of liberty there is
no protection against such combina-
tons except the ingenuity Of the in
ventor What is now wanted is i'm
proved machinery for making envel-
opes, by which greater rapidity and
economy may be secured. Anoppo-
sition to the trust which could com
mand any genuine improvements in
the direction indicated would enjoy
a bononza in the line of business.
The problem suggested is a very
difficult one. Some of the envelope
machines now belonging to the trust
are marvels of ingenuity and perfec
ton. To beat them is no easy task
A first class envelope machine now
costs two thousand dollars.-,Sci'
1meficdR.
The Government sells about half
the envelopes used. Let the govern
ment manufacture envelopes and
sell them at about cost We pre-
sumo the envelope Trust has its
Attorney in Congress to prevent
legislation to reduce IFS profits.
There is no trouble to break up mo-
nopoly, if the people vote intelligent
ly
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16

The Mineral Wealth of Siberia.
Sci. American,


Referring to the resources of coal
and iron in Siberia, writer in one
of our English exchanges says:
1t is one of the finest undeveloped
countries in the world, and it is re-
ally difficult to eXagerate the enor-
nous wealth of this gigantic region.
The soil is Of almost ineXhaustlble
wealth and the crops magnificent.
There is almost no limit to the pro-
duction of the land. The Russians
themselves have but an imperfect
idea of the immensely of their nat
ural wealth, and other people out
side Russia cannot realize it at all.
Siberia, so far from being region
Of desolation and of death, is
northern Australia, with larger riv-
ers, more extensive forests. and min
eral wealth not inferior to that Of
the island continent. In a few
years Siberia will be bridged from
end to end with railways, and in
this matter the Russian government
is showing large and wise policy.
The magnificent water communica-
tions-for il is irrigated from end
to end with some of the largest riv-
ers in the world, nayigable for thou
sands Of miles through fertile and
richly wooded lands destined e. be
the home of millions of coionists-
and canal is now being made BE
tween the Obi and the Ycnisei. which
will enable goods to be conveyed by
water the whole way from Tiumen
to beyond Lake Baikal. At Tiumen
there is a railway which passes
through the Ural mountains to
Ekaterineburg and Perm, through
tie heart of the richest mining dis
crict in Western Siberia.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16

Vice President Spencer, in reply to
charges says: "The local industries of
every character in West Virginia,
along the line of the B. q 0. are now
developing with marked rapidly,
which cannot be the case if the man
agement of the company is not adj
dressing itself with energy and cor
diality to this important matter, and
there is no doubt that the policy of
the company for the future will be
to foster local enterprises in every
reasonable way"
This is extremely amusing TO
those who know the facts. IT the b.
Il o. was notdiscriminating,w why did
it send lobby to Charleston last
winter to defeat the Chew bill.
We have the article from the
Tribune and it does not tell half the
truth. We viii publish it as soon
as room can be found
If the gentlemen who are trying
to boom West Virginia with print
er's ink would address themselves
to this subject, they would make
more progress. So far as we can
see. the DEMOCRAT is the only paper
in the state that publishes what
the railroad managers wish kept
from the people.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16

English capitalists recently put
$3,000,000 in car works at Annis-
ton, Ala, and have decided to spend
a million more to enlarge their
works. They will disburse 81, 900 q
day. 1t is in the power of our Leg
ialature to bring such capital to
West Va.
f. L. Harper was wealthy and
vice president of Cincinnati bank.
He used the money on deposit to
gamble in wheat. He lost and was
found out. On last Monday he
went to the penitentiary to stay ten
years. There are many men in pal
aces, who should be in prison.
The National Republican Conven
ton to nominate a candidate for
President has been called to meet in
Chicago June 10.
During Mr. Lamar's service as
Secretary of the Interior. 45,663,394
acres were restored to the public do
main. 1t is a wonder a fact like
this does not teach the masses the
value to them of capable and honest
men in the public service.
The Syndicate of Philadelphia,
New York and London Bankers who
captured the arrangements of the B.
& o. have made Mr.. Spencer, Presi-
dent. He viii be a mere automa-
ton to execute the orders of these
bankers.
Col. B. H. Smith, of Charleston,
died Sunday. He was very old
man and was at one time very prom
inent in public affairs.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor, of New
York. died Monday. Her income
was 100000. She was a native of
South Carolina.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16
OUR VIEWS EXACTLY.
Courier-J Journal.


Thus at last the issue which the
timid have been trying to evade,and
the corrupt to suppress, has arrived
at the front, taking precedence Of all
other issues. The politicians can
no longer shirk it, The newspapers
can no longer confuse it. The peo-
pie can no longer be cheated. The
Democratic party stands upon its
natural lines of advancement and
attack, with the banner Of Revenue
Reform fully unfurled and it's prop
er chief in the saddle.
The fallacy that protective tariff
makes highwages is well exposed. The
President has forced the politicians
to q point where they must discuss
this matter before wage-earners.
TIE time has come when they should
be fearlessly educated out of the
falsehood that protection protects
them, and into the truth that the
Democratic party differs from the
Republican party chiefly in the cir
cumstance that it is not the agent of
corporations. but prefers the good
of the many to the advantages which
the Government has the power to
bestow upon the few.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16

Let each one do his best to have
nominated and elected honest, brainy
men on honest, unambiguous plat
forms; and let the office bribery sys-
tenn Stop.-Noaroe Wdtcbmaa.
There is certain.legislation essen
tial to the prosperity of this State
which has been prevented because
immense private interests, hostile to
the public veal, thrive on q condi-
ton of things that is running our
people. These private interests are
banded together to exclude from the
Legislature all men of brains who
would honestly execute the public
will The mass Of voters are easily
deceived into supporting men who
through design or ignorance, (gen-
orally through ignorance) betray
them. Any candidate who is honest
and has capacity enough to render
efficient service is bounded down by
persons who wish to prevent the
legislation that is needed. Under
these circumstances the safest way
to bring results is for the people to
legislate at the polls. The principal
laws that are most needed are pub
lished. They were introduced in
both of the two last Legislatures.
Let the rank and file resolve to de-
feat every candidate who does not
pledge himself to vote for these laws
without changing a word. Let the
State Grange and Labor organiza-
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16
ENCOURAGING INDUSTRY.
claw" in Milwaukee Review.

Claw" in Milwaukee Review.
A writer in this paper recently
asked how protection protects.
think the following statistics, taken
from the annual reports Of the Calu
met and Hecla copper mining com
pany of Lake Superior. will show
that protection does protect the
mine owner. The original stock Of
this company consisted of 10000
shares of $25 each, only $l2 per
share being paid in, making the
original investment $4,000. The
shares have increased to 100000,
and the stock is quoted mt about
$l65 per share. This company has
declared dividends aggregating $40
100000 in less than twenty years.
The assessed valuation of its real
estate is over $20,000,000, and it is
safe to say the assessment is less
than one-third Of the real valuation.
Who will say protection does not
protect the mine owner? But can it
be said it protects the employe?
Here is company that from an in
vestment of $4,000, less than
twenty years ago, have property
worth from $50,0O0,000 to 100000,
900 and VINO have paid $50, 100000
in dividends, while their employees
have received $3.50 per day when
working. Considering the loss of
time through so-called over produc-
tion and the seasons, the wages
have averaged less than $500 per
year, and when the employe was a
tenant of the company, as was most
ly the case, he paid back as rent
from % to 80 per cent of his earn
ings. If the wage earners of this
country are satisfied with this kind
of protection" they are welcome
to il. AS for us we think others can
say as we'll as Puck, "What fools
these mortals be-"
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16

THE Proposition TO BUY AN OFF
SET don't care fora newspaper
controversy but the truth Of history
should be verified. Your editorial
of the 81 says;
"Our information is that EX-Sen. Da-
Wis first suggested the purchase Ofcertif-
icates to pay our debt to Va, and it was
advocated as early as 1874 by Mr. J. NJ.
Bennett of Weston"
/ don't know how Mr.. Bennett Of
Weston stood in IA, but l do know
that during the Long Session" of
1928, Ex-AuditOr Z. A. Bennett
made the preliminary arrangements
with substantial n. Y. Houses to
buy for the State 100000 certifi-
Gates for about 100000 of bonds,
to run 81 years. 1t was part of his
plan to invest the school fund in
these bonds and thereby keep the
bulk of the money at home. The
constitution required the proceeds
of the property inherited from the
old State to be applied to the debt
and part Of the school fund arose
from the sales of such property.
Senator Summers of Kanawha and
Senator Grantham of Jefferson, and
a number of other prominent mem
bers of the Legislature were inform
ed of and heartily approved of this
plan, which. lift had been carried
out, would have warded off all the
injury this unsettled debt bias done
the State Senator Bennett of Yves
ton was also consulted and seemed
to approve oft. The then Auditor,
+. A. Bennett, wanted the more
prominent members of the Legisla
ture to sign a paper promising to
pass the necessary bill, but this
some of them refused to do, and he
was naturally unwilling to consum-
ate the arrangement be had in prog
ress with the n. Y. parties. The re-
fusal of certain prominent men re
ferred to, to assume their proportion
of the responsibility of measure
they considered Of immense benefit
to the State, was the reason the at
fair fell through. To Major +. a.
Bennett is due the credit oforiginat-
ing the plan embodied in the reso-
lutions offered by Senator Gettinger
last winter. Ofcourse l do not sup
Pose he ever heard Of Bennet's sug-
gestion. l am sure if Gettinger had
been in the legislature IN 1928 he
would not have hesitated to assume
his share of the responsibility. The
difference is between a business man
and mere politician. ALEX.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16
SEARCH THE RECORD.
Kansas City Times.

1t was under the Administration
OF Thomas jefferson that what was
known as the Louisiana territory
was purchased from France for $l5,-
100000. This included the vast
area living west of the Mississippi
river and north of Texas, Mexico
and California, and extending to
British America, and embracing
wkat is nov known as the States O;
Arkansas. Colorado. Missouri, Lou
isiana. Kansas. Nebraska, Iowa,
Minnesota and Oregon, the Indian
Nation. and the Territories of Da
kota, idaho. Montana, Wyoming and
Washington-the whole being m
area of l,l73,000 square miles. n
third greater than the original eX-
tent of the country. 1t was under
Monroe's Administration that Flcr
ida was purchased from Spain at
the cost OF 100000. New terri
tory to the extent of 10000 square
miles was thus secured, and a con
tinuous line of seacost from Maine
TO Texas. 1t was under Folks Adj
ministration that Texas was annex
ed, with an additional territory Of
100000 square miles, while the war
with Mexico growing out of it gave
the country part of Arizona, Califor-
MIA, New Mexico, Nevada and Utah,
of 636,000 square miles. 1t was un-
der the administration of Pierce that
what was known as the Gadsden
purchase was negotiated, giving an
additional 1880 square miles of
territory, Low included in Arizona.
Then there was the purchase of
Alaska under Johnson's Admins
tration, but as we do not look upon
this President as a Democratic one,
the Republicans can take unto them
selves all the credit such purchase
implies. 1t is little enough, heaven
knows, but they should have some
thing to keep them from going out
and hanging themselves thro' sheer
disgust at their own Boosting and
vaingorious pretensions.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16

upon necessaries Of the family the
enemies of tariff reform propose TO
expend the $100,000,000 of surplus
upon vest schemes of expenditure,
and they attempt to persuade the
good-natured farmers and working
men that the money will come back
to them in fructifying stream.
While the masses Of the people are
paying excessive taxes on their cloth
ing. coal, sugar, salt, glass, earthen
ware, iron and other articles of ne
cessity, professional workingmen
will he found in the Washington
lobby denouncing and threatening
honest representatives for daring to
vote against repeal of the barbar-
Gus taxes.
Most of those taxes have been de-
signed for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF
the protected monopo!ies; and every
workingman. upon comparing the
IdASS With HIS haScS, van cSOiih"'N
how much protection the tariff sys-
ten has afforded him. In making
this interesting calculation he should
bear in mind that the articles most
necessary. for the comfort and well
being of his family have been sub
jected to the highest taxes and are
most completely under the control
of the fairfield monopolies. 1t is
natural enough that the American
tariff league should raise 100000
to aid in the maintenance of such a
policy, but it IS not easy to see why
the plundered workingmen of the
country should longer give the sys-
tenn their suDDOrt.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16
West viisgiitlia Democrat.
Thomas H. Mason. Business Manager.

Thou canst not say, | did it;
never shake thy CORY locks at me.
Mems conseia recti nee timet Maui
ri jacula.
\ newspaper that is conscious Of
the integrity of its motives, and
conscious that it has brains enough
to maintain its opinions by fair ar
gument, will not be swerved from
its course By falsehOOds emanating
from knaves and echoed by fools.
1t often happens that one man.
does the work, and another man re-
ceives the pay.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16

Ii. 5. Ives was arrested in n. Y.
last Tuesday for stealing from the
G. II. q ID. road. then in his custo-
dy. 1t will be recollected, q mere
accident prevented Ives from getting
control of the B. d O. With the
highways OF the country managed
by the Ives and Jay Gould class,
we'll may Henry George say, Cur
institutions are being changed"
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16
WEST VA. AND THE B. & o.

1t is instructive to read the fol-
ing paragraph from the report of
the proceedings of the annual meet
ing of stockholders of the b. d O.
recently held in Baltimore
As regards the Grafton and
Greenbrier Railroad, Mr.. Spencer
explained that it was 4 narrow
gauge line running from Grafton
southwest to BelingtOn, n distance
Of Al miles, now an important feed
er to the main stem, the promotion
of which was chiefly due to aid eX
tended by the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company in the purchase
of $250.000 of first mortgage bonds,
(being the entire issue and $780,,
600 of capital stock. The mortgages
at the rate of only $4,000 per mile,
and the capital stock acquired
places the control OF the company
in the hands Of the Baltimore and
Ohio Company. The road was &C
quired with a view Of developing
the local interests, particularly in
the form of feeders to the main
stem, and this line already reaches
important timber and live stock dis
tricts. and its further extension, in
connection with the local interests
to be benefited, Is projected through
the most valuable timber forests of
West Virginia.
We have done what we could TO
make the people Of this State un-
derstaud that the b. d O. fights
against any railroad enterprise in
West Virginia that it does not con
troll. five had a law to compel the
trunk lines to give Independent
roads fair rates for mutual traffic
the c.. & G. could have raised
all the capital required. 1t will
be remembered that the b. &
O. had lobby at Charleston
last winter to prevent ex-senator
Davis from amending his Charter,
and that as soon as Davis started
to build to Charleston the B. & 0.
also commenced TODD so. 1t is well
known to those who are informed
about the matter that Davis could
not have found money for his eX-
tension, were itnot that he had an
outlet at Cumberland. Ifhe had been
dependent on the B. d 0. he could
not have raised the capital,-even
although his company owns vast
tracts Of the most valuable Coal and
Timberlands which costs but a
triae rs compared with their real
value.
We notice that Vice President
Spencer and other officials of the B.
d o, are industriously making pub
locations calculated to mislead pub
lie opinion in respect to this matter.
For example, the Bait. Sun recently
had the following;
A statement in the New York
York Tribune, dated Wheeling,
shows the opposition of some rival
railroad enterprise and says, among
other things, that the policy of the
B. & o, has been antagOnistic TO
the developments of West Virginia.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16
WHAT SAY THE woRKINeMEM ?
Philda. Record.

The protected monopolies are
again gathering their funds and
making their lobby arrangements
for the fiftieth Congress, and while
they are thus engaged what say the
workingmen of the country? In or
der to prevent a reduction of taxes
upon raw materials of labor and
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-12-16
What is the circulating medium

What is the circulating medium
in the United States per capita
Answer.-The last census Of the
United States, that of 1880, gave
the population as 0,157, 1888, and on
November l, 1885, the amount Of
money in the hands of the people
was $S29,792,777. These are. both
in their respective lines, the latest
figures obtainahle, and figuring on
this basis. the amount per capita is
about $l6.54; taking the increase in
population since the last census in
to account, however, probably $l5
would be nearer the mark to-day.